If an install package is specified for a group, do all machines with a lower version get upgraded automatically whenever they get added to the group? Does this ever expire? I have some machines in these groups that were powered off longer than the update was distributed over that do not seem to be upgrading any more.
If you have an upgrade schedule set and the clients missed it, than they will not upgrade.
If you don't see one, it will not expire and clients will upgrade when added to the group. Remove and re-add to see what happens.
HI,
You can remove Upgrade schedule.
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/upgrade-clients-sep-121-auto-upgrade-feature
Hi,
Thumbs up to Brian81 suggestions.
You should try suggested steps.
I haven't set an upgrade schedule with a timeframe but I left the default "Distribute upgrades over 1 days". Does this mean that after 1 day the clients that didnt not upgrade will not upgrade? Should I have left it at 0 days?
You can uncheck it so there will be no timeframe than
So the bottom line is that if the clients are past the "Upgrade over window" I will need to re add an upgrade package to the same group for them to upgrade?
Correct.
Easiest way if you want to have all the clients from the given group to upgrade and not to worry about the schedule is to remove it. Then no matter when you add the client to the group it will upgrade.
From the two responses above it does not look like you can remove the schedule complete. You can set the install to install during the duration of one day or immediatly but you can not set it to indefinatly update a client in a group if it is at a lower version. Unless you are aware of how to do this?
If I am not wrong if you disable the schedule and set "distribute over days" to "0" - it will mean an immediate update - but it will never expire as well, so all new clients (lower versions) added in the future to that group will be getting the upgrade according to theirs heartbeat.
Thank you Sebastian, It does appear to work this way. If "distribute over days" is set to "0" the clients all get updated immediatly. Any clients that were offline get the update when they check in.
So it is then, glad to help:D